Stripper sought in murder plot

An exotic dancer at a Houston strip club is being sought in the Feb. 17 slaying of a man outside an apartment complex in northeast Houston, Harris County prosecutors said.

Luerissie Ashley Ross, 20, has been charged with capital murder in the death of Budrohoe Briscoe, court records show. A judge set a $100,000 bond for Ross, who remained at large on Monday.

Briscoe’s friend told police that he picked him up from the airport Feb. 17 and they drove to the apartment complex on West Tidwell to pick up “Pocahontas,” a dancer at a northeast Houston nightclub, court records show.

The men drove to the rear of the complex about 2 a.m. and picked up the woman, whose cell phone rang moments later, investigators said.

“She (Ross) told the person on the other end (of the line) something like, ‘Yes, there are two of them,’ ” according to a criminal complaint filed in the case. She asked the driver to return to the complex so she could pick up her phone charger, investigators said.

When they returned to the complex, a white Lincoln was parked nearby with possibly two men “crouched down” inside the vehicle, Houston police said.

The woman exited the victim’s vehicle. Moments later Briscoe received a phone call “to come meet ‘Pocahontas,” police said. As he walked to the apartment courtyard where the woman was standing, two men approached and robbed and shot him. He died Feb. 29 at an area hospital.

The next week, the victim’s relative told police that “Pocahontas” was an exotic dancer at Ice Cream Castle Nightclub on Fulton Street and that she had possibly texted photographs of herself to the victim. Police later recovered the digital images.

Police tracked down Ross in the computer database. She listed the same address as the apartment complex on West Tidwell and was charged with aggravated robbery at the complex in March, court records show.

Questioned by police on March 20, Ross admitted she was with Briscoe on the night he was killed and that she “she set up” the victim to be robbed.Follow @bobby_stanton